These epic installations by Scottish designer <a title="David Mach" href="http://www.davidmach.com/">David Mach</a> are not as simple as they look - at first glance it looks like oversized waves are flowing through the room, sweeping up whole objects such as cars, furniture and even airplanes. A closer and look reveals that the waves are made from stacks of <a title="Recycled Materials" href="http://inhabitat.com/recycled-materials/">recycled</a> magazines that have been carefully arranged to achieve smooth curves and flowing colors.

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Recycled Magazine Sculptures by David Mach

This piece called ‘Adding Fuel to Fire’ was shown at the Metronom Gallery, Barcelona in 1987. Along with the magazines, <a title="David Mach" href="http://www.davidmach.com/">Mach</a> used other objects such as cars.

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Recycled Magazine Sculptures by David Mach

The designer at work, putting together magazines to create this massive sculpture.

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Recycled Magazine Sculptures by David Mach

The Great Outdoors, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 1988. A full size found plane clearly testifies the scale of the installation.

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Recycled Magazine Sculptures by David Mach

Like A Virgin, Ujazdowski Castle Center For Contemporary Art, Warsaw 1993. In a recent interview, <a title="David Mach" href="http://www.davidmach.com/">Mach</a> said, "I'm a materials junkie, I just can't get my hands on enough stuff to make things with."

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Recycled Magazine Sculptures by David Mach

Gridlock, magazines and cars, Galerie IUFM (Confluences), Lyon 2001

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Recycled Magazine Sculptures by David Mach

Even today, Mach is continuing with his unconventional sculptures, using everyday objects such as <a href="http://inhabitat.com/david-mach-creates-enormous-sculptures-from-coat-hangers-and-matches/">matchsticks and coat hangers</a> - simple things used in an unimaginably intricate ways.

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Recycled Magazine Sculptures by David Mach

These epic installations by Scottish designer David Mach are not as simple as they look - at first glance it looks like oversized waves are flowing through the room, sweeping up whole objects such as cars, furniture and even airplanes. A closer and look reveals that the waves are made from stacks of recycled magazines that have been carefully arranged to achieve smooth curves and flowing colors.